Eat my shorts Hussein
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26 25 July 2020, 12:42
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Hey guys, thank you for your interest! Maybe there will be not so much progress during the next few weeks. Venting my man cave with 30°C outside doesn´t make fun.
28 July 2020, 15:40
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Yep thats true my progress on the projects is nearly zero at the moment. Anyhow I'm looking forward to this one.
28 July 2020, 16:40
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I don't care when you start this build, but when you start I'll be sitting front row 😉!
28 July 2020, 20:03
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Even when it´s too hot outside for a proper venting of my room after airbrushing doesn´t mean I cannot glue some parts together. Today´s work saw the fitting together of nearly all subassemblies. So now I hope for cooler weather - without painting I cannot go on....
1 August 2020, 17:38
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... and today I could go on with painting! I used the rainy day with comfortable temperatures to airbrush the wheelbays, air intake and cockpit using FS17875 and FS36231.
2 August 2020, 15:30
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Nice job with the ABT Sepia - a light shadow accent being all the nice parts really needed 👍 Pit & seat coming along nicely too...
8 August 2020, 18:06
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Thank you Slavo! Yes, I´m more in for a rather subtle weathering. Normally I´m building carrier aircrafts which sometimes have an extremely dirty appearance in the wheelbays. USAF planes aren´t that dirty as far as I noticed. So an very, very diluted Sepia came to use here which represents my desired effect.
8 August 2020, 18:14
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Only some minor progress this weekend. I´ve painted the pylons next to some gluework.
16 August 2020, 15:28
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The most complicated main gear I´ve ever assembled. Now waiting until the last few filler spots dried (unbelievable but even Tamiya kits need filling in some cases) before I can start the "Joy of Painting".
22 August 2020, 16:13
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Niiice! There are quite a few Desert Storm Vipers with nose art, some more inspired (this one) than others. I must admit I have missed this one during my search about a year ago.
22 August 2020, 19:24
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Very nice work so far Sven. It seems to me you're also away from ship modelling at the moment 😉
23 August 2020, 09:37
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Thank you guys!
@ Maciej: I´ve started this one just some weeks ago. By chance I found a Tamiya store during my last Thailand holiday in the end of 2019 and they had some special offers. So I couldn´t resist. During a model show in March I found several decal sheets covering Desert Storm F-16s. Bart Simpson is the most interesting of them.
@ Christian: Yes, I´m away from ship modelling but not for long anymore. An Arleigh Burke next HMS Montrose is waiting here to see the F-16 finished.
23 August 2020, 10:28
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Taking a seat here too!
Off to a very nice start, looking forward to watching as you progress.
24 August 2020, 13:38
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Great start indeed! Nice clean work! And always good to see a early Viper!
24 August 2020, 14:53
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Thank you Erik! Maybe soon there will be another early Viper on the bench. But Hussein will need something to eat first.
24 August 2020, 15:01
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Yup even Tamiya needs filling here and there...but how about that join of the top fuselage halves...there's where your money is going...Kinetic has the same join...BIG difference between that one and the one on the Tamiya kit. Tamiya is totally seamless the one on Kinetic isn't and will require some careful filling
24 August 2020, 22:59
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Thanks for the hint Mathijs! Yes, indeed, I was thinking to purchase a Kinetic F-16 kit. With the historical flypast of the Israeli/German Air Force last week over the Fürstenfeldbruck AB and KZ Dachau, both not far away from my home, I thought I should build one of the IDF Vipers.
28 August 2020, 09:05
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The major paintwork started today! The fuselage is primed and more and more small parts get their finish.
29 August 2020, 15:37
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All looking very promising - I too try to delay the point when static dispensers & tiny antennas hit the model 🙂 But with the F-16 variety, it's probably best to have them on before the main paintjob.
I hope all goes well, the details & sub-groups look really good 👍
29 August 2020, 17:43
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Thank you for the kind words Slavo, Kanrad and Ingmar!
Today I´ve airbrushed the underside with FS36375, applied a mottling and sprayed all over it again with FS36375. Unfortunately, I meant it a little bit to good so the effect dissolved more or less. On the topside I will do it in a stronger way.
30 August 2020, 11:01
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Thank you Ingmar! Luckily there are so many more ways to achieve a more vintage look.
30 August 2020, 11:12
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Nice build and painting! Does the Tamiya kit come with the flaps separately? Still convinced about the metal static dischargers? They look great anyway.
30 August 2020, 12:33
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I spent the rest of the rainy day painting the pilot and Sidewinders. The missiles still need the matt varnish.
@ Mark: Thank you! Yes, the kit has separate flaps which you can build either as I did or in down position. It´s the first time for me to use turned brass discharger. I´m happy with them but they are not really necessary in 1/48.
30 August 2020, 16:11
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Today I did the rest of the main paint job. This time I was in for a more intense mottling which turned out better than before. I´m quite happy with the result so far. Only some little spots I have to rework a bit.
The worst point is at the end of the fuselage. But thanks to Slavo´s introduction in his NMF weathering process it shouldn´t be too heavy to cover this issue.
5 September 2020, 15:12
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Today I highlighted and shadowed some of the panels together with some detail painting. The static dischargers turned out very well. Something I will need to display on the next models, too.
6 September 2020, 11:39
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Nice job on the statics...normally these PE things look just "out of scale"but these look near perfect!
6 September 2020, 12:47
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The paint work is looking very convincing. Great subject for an earlier F-16.
6 September 2020, 13:58
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Thanks a lot Mathijs, Alexander and Nathan!
@ Mathijs: the dischargers are turned brass parts. Master Model does them. Anyway, you don´t really recognize them as turned parts in this scale.
7 September 2020, 14:22
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You are really making it tasty for Saddam - very nice surface work all over - all dosed & distributed with a very good eye for the right measure of effect 👍
9 September 2020, 14:11
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If there is someone who can sabotage himself - then it´s me. I started with the washing process on the airframe. I did this before the glosscoat as this worked very well on the polyns and payloads and even on the underside of the plane. The upper side was too rough after the mottling process so the Gunship Grey just turned darker in all and killed my panel highlighting. So I tried to recover it by airbrushing the panels with Gunship Grey again - and what can I say: it turned out as an interesting new wear and tear effect! Anyway, I will do some highlighting and washing again before placing the decals
@ Slavo: thank you very much for your kind words!
10 September 2020, 14:28
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The way to success is paved with mistakes.
Some time ago, I was also impatient and tried the same shortcut. Now I (almost) always take the time and gross coat before applying the wash. At least for aircraft.
11 September 2020, 05:17
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Today I finally attached the last subassemblies and did the last touches of colour.
This time only workbench pictures. The balcony of our living place is under refurbishment for the next months.
23 September 2020, 15:00
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That's a great build Sven. A great load out and I really like how your pilot figure looks in the cockpit.
23 September 2020, 16:12
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Superb! The way you handled the panels & detail highlighting while keeping a nicely maintained surface without much wear & tear is great - I´d love to achieve something similar once I do a JSDAF F-2...
Very cool looking Viper (or were these still Falcon days?) both sides a pleasure for the eye! 👍 Serve the shorts!😉
23 September 2020, 17:21
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Thanks a lot Slavo! For me it´s a Falcon. Actually matt varnish "killed" a lot of highlighting effects but turned out to be as subtle as imagined before. I´m very happy with it just some few things I will do in another way the next time.
23 September 2020, 18:24
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Great looking Falcon! Or Viper for it's drivers. Well done Sven! Post a closeup of Bart just for the album to be complete.
24 September 2020, 06:42
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That turned out awesome Sven! The subtle panel highlighting is perfect. Well done!
24 September 2020, 17:58
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Really nice build Sven. Lovely details and weathering. Well done sir.
25 September 2020, 06:42
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Nice work, like the shine of the canopy and the weathering is also just right and not overdone. The darker color of the nosecone seems to be spot on comparing to the real Viper.
26 September 2020, 15:09